* Latin America: The escalating tensions in Syria have reportedly worried some of the millions of people of Syrian descent residing in Latin America.

* U.S.: A group of Cuban migrants that traveled to the U.S. claimed that they were beaten and sexually abused by guards at a Bahamian detention center. * Ecuador: Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder who has taken refuge in the Ecuadoran embassy in London since June 2012, was criticized by Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa for acting in a politically satirical video.

* Guatemala: The “duel threat of underfunded, undermanned hatcheries and shrimp trawlers” are allegedly to blame for the deaths of at least eighty sea turtles that have recently washed up on Guatemalan beaches.